The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Minnesota is $2,222 per week, with the middle half between $2,183 and $2,303. Measured across 10 active travel ER contracts in Minnesota at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent under the $2,264 national median for travel ER contracts.
Minnesota is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Minnesota license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Minnesota has the 22th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 9 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent over and services 0 percent over. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breckenridge | 2 | $2,457 | — |
| Robbinsdale | 2 | $2,210 | — |
| Detroit Lakes | 1 | $2,310 | — |
| Duluth | 1 | $2,233 | $890/mo |
| Melrose | 1 | $2,174 | — |
| Minneapolis | 1 | $2,455 | $1,350/mo |
| Sandstone | 1 | $2,280 | — |
| Shakopee | 1 | $2,079 | $1,480/mo |
Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.
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Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.
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